Scientists unlock frogs' antibacterial secrets to combat superbugs microbiologystudy
Engineers have derived potent new antibiotics from a frog’s secretions. The new molecules demonstrated capabilities on par with existing last-resort […]
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A promising approach to predicting cardiometabolic disease risk microbiologystudy
Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels A new study explores how epigenetic markers—chemical modifications that influence gene activity—can help predict the
Teaching kids about bugs benefits the environment
Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research from the University
60 genes implicated in congenital heart disease, including some that also contribute to related disorders such as autism microbiologystudy
STRING analysis of 60 significant genes in CHD. Genes not previously implicated in human CHD that have at least one
Making foie gras without force-feeding
Foie gras is a unique delicacy made from the liver of a duck or goose. While it can be an
C. diff uses toxic compound to fuel growth advantage microbiologystudy
The pathogen C. diff — the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea — can use a compound that
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Biomarker for most common cancer in young men confirmed microbiologystudy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cornell researchers have confirmed that a previously identified biomarker for detecting the presence of malignant testicular
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New AI model predicts gene variants’ effects on specific diseases microbiologystudy
DYNA leverages a Siamese network approach to fine-tune genomic foundation models for VEP in disease context. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence
Rare loss-of-function variants in HECTD2 and AKAP11 confer risk of bipolar disorder microbiologystudy
Kari Stefansson CEO of deCODE genetics withThorgeir Thorgeirsson and Vinicius Tragante, scientists at deCODE genetics and authors of Rare loss-of-function